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Monday, May 01, 2006

Am back from a trip to Coorg, and just in time for The Carnival of the Capitalists, the webs premier carnival on, what else, business and everything that relates to it in some way.

Welcome to interim thoughts..., a blog on business in India. This is perhaps the first time that the carnival is being hosted out of India. Bookmark it for future visits to know the business environment in India with a global perspective plus some thoughts on design, culture and economics with a streetside eye. After the plug, lets plunge into the Carnival right away.

It is nice getting to put the carnival together. I have grouped the posts into a set of sub headings depending on the topic they deal with.

So grab a cuppa coffee and sit back for the best in business reading this past week on the web. I have included some tidbits on India subtitled Info in some of the sections. Let me know if I missed anything or pause to leave a comment!

People, Careers, Leadership

Professor Piderit puts forward a case for reinventing jobs and careers in this post which is a collection of three links and her thoughts on the same.

There is an old market saw about how the leaders from one bull market are not the leaders in the next bull market. Read it at The Big Picture.

Watch out for companies that do their 401(k) match in their own stock over at Ask Uncle Bill.

Slightly offbeat, but this one is about receiving money from parents during college and beyond. Should they really pay to sustain your lifestyle? In India, they always do; very few work and study at the same time.

Info: In India, the gas prices (petrol, diesel as we call gas) subsidy is a long story. Diesel is subsidised for the use of trucks and the transport sector but we have luxury diesel cars now which use subsidised fuel. LPG cylinders for the home sector are subsidiesed. Our oil companies are bleeding using taxpayers money, but there is no shape of any reform on the horizon.

Money and Millionaires

At Free Money Finance is a post on new facts on the number of millionaires in the US and some tips on how you can become one of them! Simple Enough.

Politics

Where were all the politicians when god was distributing logic? Canvassing for votes, I think. At Soccer Dad is a post on the necessity of logic rationing.

Productivity and Work culture

Heres a post at Freelance pro on Notebook hacks to organize your life.

Over at the Six Sigma blog, a post on the best Six sigma black belt project at Delphi.

thank you for including my post in the CotC! Please note, though, that I'm not a him -- I'm a her, as you can perhaps tell from the photo here. I realize now that I will have to make that more clear on my blog!

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